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The key to understanding this horse is simple: wet ground and Hexham. On soft or muddy ground, she has won 2 from 5 races — a 40% win rate that is remarkable for any racehorse at any level. For context, most horses are considered excellent if they win 1 in every 5 races across a career. At Hexham specifically, she has won 2 of just 3 visits, which suggests the tight, undulating track in Northumberland suits her style of racing down to the ground. Jockey Sean Quinlan described her post-win at Hexham as feeling a different horse on the softer surface — and when he asked her to go, she simply took off from the last fence. That kind of response is not something a jockey forgets.

Her trainer Jennie Candlish, based in Staffordshire and in fine form with 61 winners this season, has had to do some careful puzzle-solving with this horse. After winning twice over two miles in the autumn of 2024, the team tried stepping her up to two and a half miles at Newcastle and she simply did not see it out — the extra distance found her out. They dropped her back to two miles at Plumpton and she went agonisingly close, beaten less than a length. The handicapper — racing's official system for making competition fair by adding weight to better horses — took notice of her Hexham win and raised her mark, which makes winning next time harder.

Her most trusted partner is Sean Quinlan, who has ridden her to all three of her wins from 13 races together — a win rate of 23%, or nearly 1 in every 4 rides. That is a genuinely strong partnership by the numbers. She has not won in her last six races, and her recent form figures of 4-2-4-4-4-5 show a horse who keeps running respectably without quite getting there. Raced just yesterday and still active, the combination of Quinlan, a wet day, and a trip back to Hexham could yet produce another moment worth talking about.